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Zulfiya Chinshanlo

Zulfiya Chinshanlo
Zulfiya Chinshanlo 2009.jpg
Chinshanlo at the 2009 World Championships
Personal information
Birth name 赵常玲 Zhao Changling
Nationality Kazakhstan
Born (1993-07-25) 25 July 1993 (age 23)
Residence Kazakhstan
Height 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight 53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Country  Kazakhstan
Sport Weightlifting
Event(s) 53kg
Coached by Viktor Ni
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • Snatch: 98 kg (2014)
  • Clean and jerk: 134 kg (2014, WR)
  • Total: 232 kg (2014)

Zulfiya Chinshanlo (Kazakh: Зүлфия Чиншанло; Russian: Зульфия Чиншанло; Chinese: 赵常玲, born 25 July 1993) is a Kazakh weightlifter. She set a world record in the clean and jerk on 29 July 2012 at the 2012 London Olympics by lifting 131 kg.

However, the validity of her record and title was called into question by a positive blood test result for the banned steroids oxandrolone and stanozolol, and she was "provisionally suspended" by the International Weightlifting Federation. Chinshanlo earned a gold medal at the 2014 World Championships. This was Kazakhstan's first podium finish at the competition.

On 27 October 2016, the IOC stripped her of both her gold medal and world and Olympic records as a result of her doping positive.

On 8 November 2012, Kazakhstan London Olympic champion Zulfiya Chinshanlo got the Olympic Council of Asia award as the best Asian athlete, along with Ilya Ilyin and Olga Rypakova.

Zulfiya, according to her official profile, is an ethnic Dungan and speaks a Chinese language (Dungan language) as her first language.

According to Chinese official media Xinhua News, Zulfiya was born and grew up in Hunan Province, China, thus she has a Chinese name and can speak Chinese much more fluently than Russian. She emigrated to Kazakhstan in 2008 along with Maiya Maneza with the approval of Hunan sport officials on a five-year lease contract. She returned to China in 2012.

Chinese media wrote that the weightlifter received her Chinese ID in the Public Security Department of Changsha city on 22 October and was going to join the Chinese national team, because her 5-year contract with Kazakhstan allegedly expired.


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